Free Download Up Home: One Girl’s Journey (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B5FR7G64 | 2023 | 6 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 379 MB
Author: Ruth J. Simmons
Narrator: Ruth J. Simmons
An "extraordinary" (The New York Times) memoir from the daughter of sharecroppers in East Texas who became the first Black president of an Ivy League university-an uplifting story of girlhood and the power of family, community, and the classroom to transform one young person’s life. I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroad in North Houston County in East Texas. Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity, no books to read. Yet despite this-or, in her words, because of it-Simmons would become one of America’s preeminent educators. The former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M, Texas’s oldest HBCU, Simmons has inspired generations of students as she herself made history.
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